What can a Somatic Session involve?
Every Somatic Session is built around how your symptoms are presenting in your body, behaviour and life. They can look different for everybody. I integrate all my skills depending on your emotional and physical symptoms.
Somatic Trauma Therapy
Somatic trauma therapy is a body-focused approach to healing from trauma and more. It is based on research that proves trauma can ‘stored’ in the body as well as the mind. It builds body- mind connection and re-teaches you the language of your body.
In this therapy, we’ll explore your body sensations and feelings in a supportive environment, slowly as not to overwhelm your system. STT aims to close the cycle of the stress response related to triggers and traumatic experiences. By working on the body-mind connection and integrating trauma in the body, we are letting your body know these dangers are in the past. Sessions range widely from person to person but can include slow somatic movement exercises, working with objects, naming feelings, emotional tracking and projection techniques. Exploring the language of your body to help build connection and promote somatic healing from within to enhance your relationship to self, to others and community, to the world and the Earth.
Somatic Bodywork
A unique service that integrates my Holistic massage background with Somatic Theory to bring insights with how your body may be communicating with you through sensation and more. We try to switch on instead of off as you would in a traditional massage setting and work on your relationship to self and your body.
It can range from gentle or firm placement of hands on a fully clothed body, Emotion-Aware Massage, Myofascial Release, Myofascial Cupping techniques or Spinal Flow. A chance to listen to the body and rebuild what you maybe have had to switch off or numb for survival.
We aim to finish the stress cycle that can be related to different areas of the body that it has been holding onto sometimes from early life and before. We never allow you to be overwhelmed. Can be used to build comfort around touch and touch related sensory issues.
“I hold alot of tension in my jaw and Nikki was able to release my jaw which also helped release my hips as well! Double impact. She was also very insightful into the potential why my jaw became very tight - could not reccomend enough.”
– Laura, Somatic Client.